Balkan studies
Balkan studies or Balkanology is the studies of the Balkans.
Institutions specializing in Balkan studies
;Academic- International Association of South-East European Studies
- East European and Balkan Institute, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
- Institute for Balkan Studies, Greece
- Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbia
- Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology, Bulgaria
- Balkanology Research Center, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Austria
- Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Greece
- Department of South Slavonic and Balkan Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic
- M. Drynov Center for Bulgarian and Balkan Studies, National University of Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Department of Balkan Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
Notable people
- Traian Stoianovich, history
- Gustav Weigand, linguistics
- Gerhard Gesemann, linguistics
- Konstantin Josef Jireček, history, linguistics
- Josef Matl, history, linguistics
- Ioannis Papadrianos, history
- Kristian Sandfeld, linguistics
- Vaso Čubrilović, history
- Radovan Samardžić, history
- Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, linguistics
- Dragoljub Dragojlović, philology, history
- Boris Shmelev, contemporary geo-politics
- Ivan Dorovský, linguistics, Slavistics and Balkanology
- Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca, history and philology
- Maria Todorova
- Irena Natalia Sawicka, linguistics